Thoughts on Sucralose or Aspartame in diet food?
annonm
Posts: 13 Member
I just had a yoplait light for the first time. It has sucarlose instead of sugar to give it less calories but i have to say, it was disgusting! I love yogurt but you can taste the sucrolose in it. Not only is it disgusting but it makes you hungrier! I am so mad I wasted my calories on it. I just want to know has anyone else ate diet food with those ingredients in it instead of real sugar and got hungrier. It also made me feel kind of sick. I don't know if that is just me or what?
0
Replies
-
If i consume too much aspartame i get migraines. Some people tolerate it better than others. I just try to avoid artificial sweeteners and my progress seems to go better.0
-
It doesn't make me hungrier to eat foods with sucralose or aspartame but I don't like the aftertaste it usually leaves. I don't eat much of either for this reason.0
-
I think it really depends on taste bud preference, but I absolutely love drinks with aspartame in them. I put packets of aspartame in my plain yogurt sometimes when I want it to be a bit sweeter as well.0
-
That stuff to me is gross. But some people prefer it and it helps them.0
-
Recent studies indicate that there are probably no health issues with aspartame.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/03March/Pages/Research-casts-doubt-on-aspartame-sensitivity.aspx
http://www.hcplive.com/news/Aspartame-Blinded-Study-Demonstrates-Safety-Again
0 -
I never use artificial sweeteners. Besides tasting horrible, they make me sick to my stomach and give me migraines in larger quantities. I'm not trying to lose weight, so the calories in real sugar aren't a big concern for me.0
-
I don't like the aftertaste and get headaches from both so I avoid them.0
-
This content has been removed.
-
It doesn't make me hungrier but it does have an after taste.0
-
I'll happily gobble down a food with fake sugar if that nasty taste has been adequately hidden. Unfortunately, that seems to be none of them.0
-
I don't eat "diet food"...I just eat food. I don't ingest artificial sweeteners, I prefer the real deal. I think artificial sweeteners make food taste like *kitten*.0
-
Diet mtn dew. Everyday.0
-
As a diabetic type 2 in remission, I use artificial sweeteners almost exclusively. I can't tell the difference any more. Artificial sweeteners do not make me hungry. Intensive cardio makes me hungry.0
-
Yuck. I wouldn't touch those chemical sweeteners, personally.0
-
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/aspartame
"In the United States, artificial sweeteners such as aspartame are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products must be tested for safety and approved by the FDA before they can be used. The FDA also sets an acceptable daily intake (ADI) for each sweetener, which is the maximum amount considered safe to consume each day during a person's lifetime. The ADI is set to be about 100 times less than the smallest amount that might cause health concerns, based on studies done in lab animals.
The FDA has set the ADI for aspartame at 50 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) of body weight. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which regulates food additives in the European Union, recommends a slightly lower ADI for aspartame, at 40 mg/kg.
To put the ADI for aspartame in perspective, this would be 3,750 milligrams per day for a typical adult weighing 75 kilograms (about 165 pounds), far more than most adults take in daily. A 12 ounce can of diet soda usually contains about 192 milligrams of aspartame and a packet of the tabletop sweetener contains about 35mg. An adult weighing 165 pounds would have to drink more than 19 cans of diet soda a day or consume more than 107 packets to go over the recommended level."
Unless you have phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder which prevents you from breaking down a component of aspartame that can lead to issues (rare, and you would be tested for it), there is no health risk associated with aspartame as an artificial sweetener.
If you're guzzling down 19+ cans of soda a day or 107+ packets of sugar a day, you're going to have a lot of other health problems before you have to worry about the sweetener specifically, haha.
If you're just asking taste/preference wise, I don't like diet soda...but I also don't really like regular soda that much haha so hard to tell, and I don't put sugar in my coffee.0 -
Believe it or not the regular sugar is better for me then the artifical sugar.I get so sick. And believe it or not I was drinking those lipton ice tea water enhancers in my water and got so sick. Those things have something in them that are not good.0
-
I think both sweeteners taste awful.
Personally, if I want sugar free, I don't try for sweet. If I want sweet, I use sugar, maple syrup, or honey.
If you don't like sucralose (aka Splenda), do be careful and read labels. They sneak that stuff into all kinds of foods without warning. Yuck. I got caught out by the Yoplait light as well...seems pointless to add the splenda when there are other 100 cal yogurts that don't resort to artificial sweeteners.0 -
I don't like most sugar free things because of the taste, although I do chew sugar-free gum with aspartame and I haven't noticed anything like making me hungier or feeling ill.0
-
I don't eat "diet" foods or drink "diet" drinks. On the other hand I don't consume a lot of sugar either and don't drink soda. My drinks are black coffee, water, and Earl Grey tea.
Edit to fix spelling.0 -
LOL at "Early Grey Tea". I can see an early tea scented with oil of bergamot might be best taken earlier rather than later. I tell you, Siri spellcheck has a lot of work cut out for her if she is going to make heads or tails of the English language.0
-
Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.
If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.0 -
spoonyspork wrote: »Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.
If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.
I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...0 -
spoonyspork wrote: »Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.
If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.
I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...
What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?
I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.0 -
spoonyspork wrote: »Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.
If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.
I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...
What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?
I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.
Without warning? It's on the label.0 -
spoonyspork wrote: »Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.
If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.
I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...
What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?
I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.
Without warning? It's on the label.
Often only in tiny print on the ingredient list. They used to put the big logo of Splenda or Nutrasweet on the label, not as a requirement, I think it was more of a boast that they had the "new" sweetener in it. (And, in the case of Nutrasweet, it was a reassurance that it wasn't saccharine, which was the only alternative at the time) And, in food items not labeled "diet?" people aren't likely to pick up the container, pull out their readers (shut up, I'm old) and scan the small print for sucralose. As the PP said, if you buy regular, full calorie hot cocoa mix? Why would you double check for Splenda?
0 -
Right. But that's not "without warning." Just because you (or whomever) doesn't look at the ingredient list doesn't mean that the manufacturer didn't tell you. If you (or whomever) doesn't want to consume a particular ingredient, it's incumbent upon you to make sure you don't buy it - the information is there.0
-
spoonyspork wrote: »Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.
If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.
I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...
What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?
I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.
Without warning? It's on the label.
Often only in tiny print on the ingredient list. They used to put the big logo of Splenda or Nutrasweet on the label, not as a requirement, I think it was more of a boast that they had the "new" sweetener in it. (And, in the case of Nutrasweet, it was a reassurance that it wasn't saccharine, which was the only alternative at the time) And, in food items not labeled "diet?" people aren't likely to pick up the container, pull out their readers (shut up, I'm old) and scan the small print for sucralose. As the PP said, if you buy regular, full calorie hot cocoa mix? Why would you double check for Splenda?
This, all of this! I compared the label to the last box I had (which was still on top of the trash can). The previous batch did NOT have Splenda, this one did. I had checked MANY MANY times before: why would I check now? Went to the grocery store and *every single brand* had started doing it, none of them with any indication on the box. The only one that didn't was the generic store brand.
Vitamin water did it too. They HAVE a 'zero' flavor. Whhhhy did they feel the need to put it in the regular stuff, without warning?0 -
Right. But that's not "without warning." Just because you (or whomever) doesn't look at the ingredient list doesn't mean that the manufacturer didn't tell you. If you (or whomever) doesn't want to consume a particular ingredient, it's incumbent upon you to make sure you don't buy it - the information is there.
But it IS without warning. It's not a normal ingredient in a non-diet food. It doesn't belong in food not labeled as such, IMHO. It serves no purpose in a food not designed to be reduced calorie.
And, seriously, it tastes like crap.
0 -
I loathe the taste of artificial sweeteners. And I also loathe stevia! Blech!!!
Stonyfield Farms Fat Free French Vanilla Yogurt is delicious and while not as low cal as Yoplait, it is sweetened with sugar.
I've gotten away from it though and reaching for Greek yogurts because of the higher protein amount, but I absolutely avoid yogurt and most other "diet" foods that have sweeteners other than ordinary old sugar. 0 -
I just had a yoplait light for the first time. It has sucarlose instead of sugar to give it less calories but i have to say, it was disgusting! I love yogurt but you can taste the sucrolose in it. In my opinion, Not only is it disgusting but it made me hungrier! I am so mad I wasted my calories on it. I just want to know has anyone else ate diet food with those ingredients in it instead of real sugar and got hungrier. It also made me feel kind of sick. I don't know if that is just me or what?
FIFY
0
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.4K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.2K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.9K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 426 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.7K MyFitnessPal Information
- 24 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions